double-harness love

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  • I never thought of it before -- which goes to show that this double-harness business puts a different face on 'most everything.

    North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • But I realize that when you travel in double-harness you can't forever pull back on your team-mate.

    The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

  • It's a matter of give and take, this problem of traveling in double-harness.

    The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

  • They're not the only double-harness outfit hyar, either.

    Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

  • It's the thoroughbreds that sweat when they're backed into double-harness.

    The Story of the Gadsbys Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • It's the thoroughbreds that sweat when they're backed into double-harness.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • It shies a good deal at gnats, I own; but it can run in double-harness with a camel, if worldly considerations render such a course desirable.

    The Farringdons Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler 1894

  • And, truly, women or men who get themselves concerned about the universe at large, would do well not to plunge hastily into marriage, for they do not run smoothly in the double-harness of that honourable estate.

    An Autobiography Besant, Annie 1893

  • This double-harness of comradeship had worked for so many years that he couldn't imagine wearing it with another.

    The Dust Flower Basil King 1893

  • "I have had enough of double-harness work, unless I am commanded to go,

    Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police James Oliver Curwood 1903

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